College v2
NJ worst for college, Flordia best. How’s your state?
According to the New York Times, my great home state of New Jersey loses more residents to out of state colleges than any other. Being a resident, I can tell you that New Jersey offers the worse in-state tuition discounts...
Read more »When in college, tell your mom to shut up
Have you ever known “that kid”? The one who can’t make a major choice with our first consulting dear old Mom and Dad. Or perhaps whenever they must speak to an adult, the parent will speak for the child. According...
Read more »iPod: turns out it can save your life
Old story, but worth a mention. This 17-year-old was struck by lightning and has burn marks tracing where he was wearing the iPod. The Denver Post article. One Boing Boing reader even beleived the iPod bypasses the current from his...
Read more »Campus Dirt – how does your school stack up?
Campus Dirt is a relatively new service offering to tell what colleges are “really” like. They accomplish this by polling current and former students and compiling their answers into polls. Although I’ve only attended one college – Temple University –...
Read more »New Ad policy – What’s the deal with affiliate links?
I know most of you reading this may not care, but I think it is important to be transparent with my readers. I am going to begin using affiliate links in my posts so help generate some income for College...
Read more »Facebook is giving away iTunes songs here’s how to get them
Those chummy fellows at Facebook are giving away 10 million free iTunes music samplers. The promotion is part of a back to school drive to remind college students that Apple’s iPod and Facebook occupy 95% of all student time. So...
Read more »Coastr – MySpace for beer
Hello internet, its Sean. Please stop removing “e’s” to be trendy and “Web 2.0.” Thanks. Now that we have that out of the way, Coastr is social networking on the premise of cataloging beers. Beer, of course, is an essential...
Read more »Brand new layout! College v2 3.0
If you are reading this in an RSS reader, you may want to click through for this one. As you can see, College V2 has received a major update. I wish I could claim responsibility for this one, but it’s...
Read more »How to get (nearly) free stuff, from eBay.
Inspired by Get Rich Slowly: If you’re going away to college, no doubt you are looking for odds and ends like toasters and microwaves. Things that may not be insanely expensive, but can add up. So what are the best...
Read more »The full DoD report – spying on college students.
As promised, here is the entire report issued by the Department of Defense. It includes the text of several students’ e-mails that the DoD considers “potential terrorist activity.” To clarify my two former posts, it is the DoD that is...
Read more »Facebook trick – tiled friends
Keith of desideratum has a nice posting about a “hidden” facebook feature – tiled friends. How do you do it? To quote Keith: Go to your Facebook home (i.e. http://*.facebook.com/home.php). Click on the My Friends link in the left nav...
Read more »NSA spying on college students and what you can do about it- pt 2
I have recently put the plans in motion to obtain the report that The Chronicle used for their article about spying on college kids. Hopefully soon we can have the details.
Read more »NSA spying on college students and what you can do about it
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Department of Defense monitored e-mail messages from college students who were planning protests against the war in Iraq and against the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gay and lesbian members...
Read more »Wanted: A designer
I’m look for a blog designer to overhaul College v2. Drop a me an email at scblanda@gmail.com if you are interested. I would prefer a fellow college student, but I’m not picky at all.
Read more »Reason #476 the iPod must be stopped
Its offical the iPod needs to be stopped. According to a recent survey the iPod is more “in” then beer. First of all, what kind of kids did CNN interview? And second, who born after 1980 says “in”? Nearly three...
Read more »Dishes = evil
Lifehacker had a nice bit about easy ways to do your dishes that was perfect for any dorm dweller. I know me and my 5 roomies had many a fight over who used what dish and when. Do yourself a...
Read more »College 101: Brendon Mendelson from The Brendon Show guest entry
Brendon Mendelson of The Brandon Show offers some tips on emailing your professors. I had a similiar (not as funny) entry a while back. Enjoy, and be sure to head on over to The Brendon Show for a daily dose...
Read more »College v2 mentioned in magazine article!
A while back I was interviewed by Karine Joly of University Business magazine about RSS feeds. CV2 got a whole paragraph. Whoever told Ms. Joly about the site, thanks!. A scan of the page is at the end of the...
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